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Adriel Wallick–if you’re going by Google alone–is best known as a participant of the ill-fated game jam reality show. A few entries for her organization of the Train Jam appear as well, and people seem to joke that she works on satellites, but by and large, it would be difficult …

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Frankly, I wasn’t even aware that idol simulators were “a thing,” as they’d say, and as such Hyperdimension Neptunia PP: Producing Perfection represents my first foray into the realm. In it, the player acts as a manager guiding a fresh-faced ingenue in her efforts to become an international singing sensation. …

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Reid and I have had plenty of time to sink our teeth into the Destiny Beta since it began last week. There was plenty about it that we both loved, but questions about how much the game’s story will actually matter, and how much more complex enemy encounters will eventually …

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I know that I can really get into horror games, so after my first playthrough I was curious to try out Among the Sleep on some friends. I had ‘em over, we set up the projector, and we waited until it was dark. The game doesn’t have enough content to …

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There’s something immensely comforting about 8bit Fanatics’ 1001 Spikes.
For all its seemingly arbitrary ‘masocore’ trappings – a genre built on broken controllers and unvarnished obscenities, popularized by stuff like Super Meat Boy and deepcut I Want To Be The Guy – it’s actually an impossibly fair game. Everything works according …

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I first came across Laura Post’s name when looking up the voice actors involved in upcoming game Firefall where she voices Aero. Prior to appearing in Firefall, Post has been involved in plenty of other tv shows and anime dubs, but more interesting are her roles in video games, including …

Mass Effect is still my favorite of Bioware’s seminal trilogy. Even now — clunky mechanics and stiff controls aside — it’s the only game in the series to honestly inspire me. Everything about it, from Jack Wall’s haunting soundtrack to the cool blues that dominate the color palette, set it …

As a result of a month-long game jam, Coffee Stain Studios has brought forth the darkest and most bleak game I’ve ever seen. Sure, it looks like a happy-go-lucky goat running around headbutting and licking things, but once you look past the surface you see the truly depressing message this …

Good belated Friday, everyone! I know, I know, Sunday is the day most opposite Friday, but what can you do?
The RPG Club’s playthrough of Kingdom Hearts has hit something of a snag: some of us are super busy, while others (hint: it’s me) beat the game long ago now, letting …

It’s not really a huge secret that I’m not a big strategy game enthusiast; it’s tough for me to cultivate the patience for them, and often tougher to uncover the tactical minutiae required to traverse the fine line between winning and losing.
Normally, these games are about Good versus Evil, and …

Consider the following:
1) In Far Cry 2, it is possible to shoot and wound an enemy without killing him. If you manage to do this, he will roll around in the grass writhing in pain, or maybe grab a pistol and attempt a final act of defiance against you, his …

Editor’s Note: As you’ve probably already guessed, this essay contains extensive discussion of end-game spoilers for Red Dead Redemption.
In fiction and art, violence has always existed. Think of Diomedes, duelling with Aeneas, or the traveller, beaten and robbed in the story of The Good Samaritan.
The rectification of videogaming’s public-facing image …

Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc is unique among visual novels in that its platinum trophy doesn’t require an egregious amount of replays thanks to countless branching pathways and numerous endings. From start to finish it’s a largely linear affair, even if its plot goes down some unexpectedly dark back alleys on …

Hey everyone! RPG Club is back for more Disney x Squaresoft shenanigans! Go check out last week’s post, and then stick around for this week, about how much Kingdom Hearts bummed some of us out, and how much some of us are enjoying our first ventures into this world of …

Visual novels are a relatively niche genre here in the states, limited mostly to fanservice-heavy anime styled titles and enjoyed mostly by those with a thick skin for the tropes found within. Games like 999 or Virtue’s Last Reward have enjoyed some success despite punishingly obtuse branching pathways and “true” …